Making films that people want to watch … again

Just back from a delicious three day shoot in the mountains of the Sierra de Tejeda in southern Spain. It was my first visit to the area and I’m sure it won’t be the last. What a privilege to be taken to the most beautiful out of the way spots for the pleasure of filming.

We’re very fortunate in that respect. Our clients are invariably great people with interesting stories that we love to help them tell.

In this case, the location was stunning, the hospitality perfection and the sun shone.

The electricity went off a couple of hours ago. Nothing terribly exciting in the greater scheme of things, just a clunk as the lights went out and the UPS cut in to safely save the open files and shut down the computers.

With that decisive clunk of course, went our electronic access to the outside world, including the phones. This is, on the face of it, a bad thing.

This time of year is traditionally very quiet for productions that entail outdoor shooting.

Not only is the weather generally pretty hostile to filming and (particularly) to shivering filmmakers but we all know that many locations really start coming into their own as the first shoots of spring emerge. At which time, of course, demand for our work increases dramatically.

I’m hypersensitive to light. Not in the sense that it causes pain or I can’t see in bright light. It’s more that I’m very conscious that half way through January the light is already changing. The days are getting longer and the angle of the light is definitely on the move.

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